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View article: Identifying critical work-related characteristics in police roles: A comparative analysis using the O*NET framework
Identifying critical work-related characteristics in police roles: A comparative analysis using the O*NET framework Open
Policing roles require specific work-related characteristics (WRCs) critical for effective performance. This study identifies key WRCs for various roles within the Swedish Police—patrol officers, criminal investigators, Special Weapons and…
View article: Why do judgments on different person-descriptive attributes correlate with one another? A conceptual analysis with relevance for most psychometric research
Why do judgments on different person-descriptive attributes correlate with one another? A conceptual analysis with relevance for most psychometric research Open
Patterns of correlations among judgments of targets on different items are the basis for common psychometric procedures such as factor analysis and network modeling. The outcomes of such analyses may shape the images (i.e., theories) that …
View article: Why do judgments on different person-descriptive attributes correlate with one another? A conceptual analysis with relevance for most psychometric research
Why do judgments on different person-descriptive attributes correlate with one another? A conceptual analysis with relevance for most psychometric research Open
Patterns of correlations among judgments of targets on different items are the basis for common psychometric procedures such as factor analysis and network modeling. The outcomes of such analyses may shape the images (i.e., theories) that …
View article: How Social Desirability Influences the Relationship between Measures of Personality and Key Constructs in Positive Psychology
How Social Desirability Influences the Relationship between Measures of Personality and Key Constructs in Positive Psychology Open
Does socially desirable responding produce exaggerated correlations between self-ratings of personality and positive psychology constructs? We operationalized social desirability as the tendency to react to evaluative content in questionna…
View article: The Impact of Witnessing School Bullying in the Classroom: Exploring Perceptions and Responses Among Turkish Students
The Impact of Witnessing School Bullying in the Classroom: Exploring Perceptions and Responses Among Turkish Students Open
This study addresses the impact of witnessing different types of school bullying on Turkish school students who are bystanders. The primary aim is to investigate how the type of bullying (direct/indirect; ostracism/devaluation) affects the…
View article: Why Do Judgments on Different Person-Descriptive Attributes Correlate With One Another? A Conceptual Analysis With Relevance for Most Psychometric Research
Why Do Judgments on Different Person-Descriptive Attributes Correlate With One Another? A Conceptual Analysis With Relevance for Most Psychometric Research Open
Patterns of correlations among judgments of targets on different attributes are the basis for common psychometric procedures such as factor analysis and network modeling. The outcomes of such analyses may shape the images (i.e., theories) …
View article: Clinician Attitudes Towards Adoption of Evidence-Based Practice: A Nationwide Multiprofessional Cross-Sectional Study of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Sweden
Clinician Attitudes Towards Adoption of Evidence-Based Practice: A Nationwide Multiprofessional Cross-Sectional Study of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Sweden Open
Background: Implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) is a priority to improve service delivery and outcomes. Clinicians’ EBP attitudes are likely to play a crucial role in imple…
View article: Extravert Surgical Resident Applicants Get Higher 360-Degree Evaluations From Coworkers
Extravert Surgical Resident Applicants Get Higher 360-Degree Evaluations From Coworkers Open
Applicants for surgical residency rated significantly higher than the norm in four personality domains. Extraversion correlated with overall higher scores in 360-degree assessments by coworkers. Higher scores were not related to objective …
View article: Multilevel barriers to guideline implementation - a nationwide multi- professional cross- sectional study within child and adolescent psychiatry
Multilevel barriers to guideline implementation - a nationwide multi- professional cross- sectional study within child and adolescent psychiatry Open
Background Despite efforts to promote guideline use, guideline adoption is often suboptimal due to failure to identify and address relevant barriers. Barriers vary not only between guidelines but also between settings, intended users, and …
View article: The Swedish version of the Barrier and Facilitator Assessment Instrument: translation, adaptation, and initial psychometric testing in a large and nationwide sample
The Swedish version of the Barrier and Facilitator Assessment Instrument: translation, adaptation, and initial psychometric testing in a large and nationwide sample Open
Background Few scales designed to assess factors that facilitate and/or impede the uptake of guidelines in routine care are valid, reliable, and cover multiple domains. The Barriers and Facilitators Assessment Instrument (BFAI) measures ba…
View article: Gender and maladaptive personality correlates in problem gambling and over-indebtedness: Novel findings from a cross-sectional study in Sweden
Gender and maladaptive personality correlates in problem gambling and over-indebtedness: Novel findings from a cross-sectional study in Sweden Open
Although most individuals consider gambling to be an innocent and fun activity, when it develops into problem gambling, it can have detrimental outcomes to one's life, such as over-indebtedness. This cross-sectional study explores the role…
View article: Why Forced-Choice and Likert Items Provide the Same Information on Personality, Including Social Desirability
Why Forced-Choice and Likert Items Provide the Same Information on Personality, Including Social Desirability Open
The forced-choice response format is often considered superior to the standard Likert-type format for controlling social desirability in personality inventories. We performed simulations and found that the trait information based on the tw…
View article: Worker role perceptions and work participation among people with mental health issues taking part in interventions focusing on everyday life
Worker role perceptions and work participation among people with mental health issues taking part in interventions focusing on everyday life Open
Background: Knowing whether interventions addressing everyday life as a whole can affect work readiness for people with severe mental health issues would be important for how to develop support. Objective: To compare two groups of people w…
View article: Coping with workplace incivility in the foodservice industry
Coping with workplace incivility in the foodservice industry Open
The purpose of the study was to explore employees’ appraisals and coping responses to workplace incivility in the foodservice industry. Five group interviews with foodservice workers were conducted. 13 different types of experienced or wit…
View article: The NB5I: A full-scale Big-Five inventory with evaluatively neutralized items
The NB5I: A full-scale Big-Five inventory with evaluatively neutralized items Open
Personality is normally measured by means of self-ratings. Despite some drawbacks, the method is here to stay, and improving on it, particularly with regards to social desirability, is essential. One way to do this is evaluative neutraliza…
View article: Data sets for: The NB5I: A full-scale Big-Five inventory with evaluatively neutralized items
Data sets for: The NB5I: A full-scale Big-Five inventory with evaluatively neutralized items Open
Dataset for: The NB5I: A full-scale Big-Five inventory with evaluatively neutralized items
View article: Code for CFA. The NB5I: A full-scale Big-Five inventory with evaluatively neutralized items
Code for CFA. The NB5I: A full-scale Big-Five inventory with evaluatively neutralized items Open
Code for CFA. The NB5I: A full-scale Big-Five inventory with evaluatively neutralized items
View article: Accounting for the evaluative factor in self-ratings provides a more accurate estimate of the relationship between personality traits and well-being
Accounting for the evaluative factor in self-ratings provides a more accurate estimate of the relationship between personality traits and well-being Open
Social desirability may cause spurious relations in self-rating measures. The present study sought to disentangle socially desirable responding and content in the relation between measures of personality traits and well-being. Social desir…
View article: Longitudinal Outcomes of Witnessed Workplace Incivility: a Three-Wave Full Panel Study Exploring Mediators and Moderators
Longitudinal Outcomes of Witnessed Workplace Incivility: a Three-Wave Full Panel Study Exploring Mediators and Moderators Open
The aims of the present study are formulated to test theoretical assumptions of the incivility spiral presented by Andersson and Pearson (1999). The first aim is to investigate possible longitudinal outcomes of witnessed workplace incivili…
View article: Five-Factor Personality Inventories Have a Competence-Related Higher-Order Factor Due to Item Phrasing
Five-Factor Personality Inventories Have a Competence-Related Higher-Order Factor Due to Item Phrasing Open
This research examines whether the items of some of the most well-established five-factor inventories refer to competence. Results reveal that both experts and laymen can distinguish between items that refer to how competently a behavior i…
View article: The Properties and Utility of Less Evaluative Personality Scales: Reduction of Social Desirability; Increase of Construct and Discriminant Validity
The Properties and Utility of Less Evaluative Personality Scales: Reduction of Social Desirability; Increase of Construct and Discriminant Validity Open
Evaluative neutralization implies rephrasing items such that it is less clear to the respondent what would be a desirable response in the given population. The current research compares evaluatively neutralized scales measuring the FFM mod…
View article: Why do judgments on different person-descriptive attributes correlate with one another? A conceptual analysis with relevance for most psychometric research
Why do judgments on different person-descriptive attributes correlate with one another? A conceptual analysis with relevance for most psychometric research Open
Patterns of correlations among judgments of targets on different items are the basis for common psychometric procedures such as factor analysis and network modeling. The outcomes of such analyses may shape the images (i.e., theories) that …
View article: A latent core of dark traits explains individual differences in peacekeepers’ unethical attitudes and conduct
A latent core of dark traits explains individual differences in peacekeepers’ unethical attitudes and conduct Open
The influence of military members’ malevolent personality traits on their ethical attitudes and behaviors has been the subject of research for decades. We investigated the relationship between malevolent individual difference factors (Mach…